thanks,
Nutan.

I do this sort of toggling all the time. In the case where you have two possible columns occupying the same space and with the same length, it’s quite easy.

Store both values in hidden fields in the subfile line. When the toggle is set one way, and the subfile is first filled, both these fields are filled, AND the displayable field is filled with the right value – first tim in, let’s say #PROCP values.

When the user presses the toggle function key, either you can just refresh the subfile and load the displayable field with #ORDERP data, or you can read through the subfile and copy the #ORDERP data from its hidden field into the displayable field.

Storing both pieces of data in hidden fields means that when you read a specific subfile record, you have that data available to you in your program.

Don’t forget to change the heading in the subfile control format (or header format) to show the user which data is being displayed.

Using this technique, you can do all sorts of things with a subfile, like having the sort of window left/right function you can see in the spool file display screen. Because you store ALL the data you want to display conditionally in hidden fields in the subfile record, you don’t have to reload the subfile when the toggle is pressed.

Regards,

Sloopy

When you write records to the subfile you write to both
You exfmt on the control for the first subfile, if use hits the function key for the change exfmt on second.
Phil

(And when I say you “want” to, I mean that that’s the facility you need to look at. I’m pretty sure it’s not what any of us would want to do in this circumstance!)

I’m pretty sure that’s what CharlieBrowne was getting at back in his first comment.

Tom

Tom